1936 - Wikipedia

Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century

Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s

Years: 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 - 1936 - 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941

Events

January 15 -- The first building to be completely covered in glass is completed in Toledo, Ohio, for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company[?].
January 20 - Edward VIII becomes King of the United Kingdom
January 31 - The Green Hornet radio show debuts.
February 4 - Radium E. becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically.
February 6 - 1936 Winter Olympic Games[?] open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen[?], Germany
March 1 - Hoover Dam completed.
March 7 - World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact[?] and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
March 8 - The first stock car[?] race is held in Daytona Beach, Florida.
April 3 - Richard Bruno Hauptmann[?] is executed for the kidnapping and death of the baby son of Anne and Charles Lindbergh.
May 9 - Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Abba[?] on May 5.
May 28 - Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers[?]" for publishing.
October 13 - The Jarrow March sets off for London.
November - Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Alfred M. Landon in the U.S. presidential election.
December 30 - The United Auto Workers[?] union stages its first sit-down strike.

Inge Lehmann argues that the Earth's molten interior has a solid core.
The Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Turkish Straits is signed.
Francisco Franco and other generals attempt a coup d'etat against the Spanish Republic and start the Spanish Civil War.
Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
Abdication of King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom leads to accession of King George VI of the United Kingdom.

Art, Culture & Fashion

1936 in film
- January 6 - Porky Pig premieres
- The Great Ziegfeld
- Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- Romeo and Juliet
- A Tale of Two Cities
1936 in literature
- The Allegory of Love by C. S. Lewis
- Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink[?]
- Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Life magazine is first published
1936 in music
- January 4 - Billboard magazine publishes its first music hit parade
1936 in sports[?]
- January 29 - First inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced
- February 8 - Jay Berwanger becomes the first person to be selected by a National Football League draft, by the Philadelphia Eagles.
- Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany
- Jesse Owens wins four gold medals in Berlin Olympics
1936 in television
- July 7 - NBC's first attempt at actual programming is a 30-minute variety show featuring speeches, dance ensembles, monologues, vocal numbers, and film clips.
- Approximately 2000 television sets are in use around the world

Births

January 3 - Georgina Spelvin[?], pornographic film actress
January 10 - Stephen Ambrose, historian and Dwight Eisenhower biographer
January 10 - Robert Wilson[?], physicist, radio astronomer
January 22 - Joseph Wambaugh[?], author
January 23 - Jerry Kramer[?], American football star
January 27 - Troy Donahue[?], actor (+ 2001)
January 28 - Alan Alda, actor
February 11 - Burt Reynolds, United States actor
February 17 - Jim Brown[?], American football star
February 21 - Barbara Jordan[?], American politician (+ 1996)
February 23 - Majel Barrett, United States actress
February 29 - Henri Richard[?], ice hockey player
March 4 - Jim Clark, racing driver
March 5 - Dean Stockwell[?], actor
March 6 - Marion Barry Jr.[?], mayor of Washington, DC
March 11 - Reverend Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader (+ 1990)
March 11 - Antonin Scalia, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court
March 17 - Ladislav Kupkovic, composer
March 18 - Frederik Willem de Klerk, South African politician
March 19 - Ursula Andress[?], actress
March 24 - David Suzuki, environmentalist
March 28 - Mario Vargas Llosa, author and politician
April 22 - Glen Campbell, musician
April 23 - Roy Orbison, singer
May 9 - Glenda Jackson, actress and politician
May 9 - Albert Finney, actor
May 12 - Frank Stella, painter
May 14 - Bobby Darin, singer (+ 1973)
May 15 - Paul Zindel[?], novelist, playwright
May 15 - Anna Maria Alberghetti[?], actress
May 16 - Karl Lehmann, theologian
May 17 - Dennis Hopper, actor, director
May 28 - Betty Shabazz[?], civil rights leader and wife of Malcolm X
May 30 - Keir Dullea[?], actor
September 7 - Buddy Holly, United States singer
October 3 - Steve Reich, composer
October 16 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer
November 20 - Don DeLillo, United States author

Deaths

January 16 - Albert Fish, serial killer (electrocuted)
January 18 - Rudyard Kipling, British writer
January 20 - King George V of the United Kingdom
February 19 - Billy Mitchell, military aviation pioneer
April 3 - Bruno Hauptmann[?], convicted of killing Charles Lindbergh Jr.
June 11 - Robert E. Howard, American fantasy author
June 14 - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, author
Wilhelm Gustloff, Swiss Nazi Party leader
Grazia Deledda, Sardinian (Italy) writer - Nobel prize for literature (1926)

Nobel Prizes